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Newspaper
La Crosse Tribune
Location
La Crosse, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1908
Page
9
Multiple ads recruit barbers machinists and general helpers in La Crosse Wisconsin with salaries and schooling offers. Also numerous sale listings include a billiard hall cigar store real estate two buggies farming land and various household items.
Wanted solicitors with good proposals and big money for real workers. Call at Tribune office tonight between 7 and 9. Ask for Mr. Brady.
Classified pleas seek female staff for kitchens dining rooms housework and general office work. Listings include the Cafe 412 Main Allen hotel 433 Mill St Loomis 2113 and Northwestern Hotel 319 Vine Ho tel Deering Eagle Hotel and Star Knitting Co 128 Main St plus travel agents and general agents positions with pay from 100 to 260 dollars monthly, apply at Hotel Grand or by mail W QO Brown for interview details.
A series of classified notices offer a baby carriage, cottage, three houses on two lots, a touring car, encyclopedia set, a large oak library table, a house to be removed, and a hall safe. Inquiries directed to various addresses and offices including this paper and Standard Oil Company.
Lost eight month old Irish water spaniel pup brown in color with collar. Reward offered. Call old phone 106. Return to Dr H C Evenson.
General insurance offerings including fire life accident liability plate glass burglary sprinkler leakage and bond services by S Van Auken located at 328 Pearl Street in the city.
La Crosse Mortgage and Loan Company advertises salaried people can obtain loans on furniture pianos horses and wagons with no removal and no publicity required. Office at 332 Main Street upstairs.
MR URQUHART CAWLEY B A Organist of Christchurch receives pupils for organ piano and singing Vocal culture a specialty Studio rr Main street Old phone Red 1. TABLE POARD REASONABLE PRICE 118 So Ltd WANTED Two or three furnished rooms on ground floor for light housekeeping by young married couple front rooms preferred Breakfast only cooking done Call old phone 6484 WANTED To buy small house and lot paying about 20 per month Address House Tribune MRS DR COHEN is giving massage treatments of various kinds to ladies at her home 429 So 5th St MILLERS pasture will open May 1st All cows taken at the owner s risk Will receive them at 7 am Fp them at 6 pm Old phone WANTED An opportunity to clean that dirty wall paper satisfaction assured Prices reasonable Call 964A new phone
Multiple city properties offered for sale including a three room cottage at 803 La Crosse Street and two 198 by 150 foot lots for 4500. Other items: fine modern residences 7500, 1100 for Madison Court lot, factory building on two lots, 17 acres with water privilege, and a store with double dwelling near the R R station. Financing available through Klein and Money to Loan.
Sioux Falls South Dakota April 28 William Lillie a pioneer resident of Lyman county was badly burned while handling a wagon with two colts. He placed hay in the wagon box and it ignited likely from a dropped match. The flames frightened the animals and Lillie clung to the lines to control them suffering burns to his legs and body.
Mr. S. L. Bowen of Wayne West Virginia says a dollar bottle of Foley's Kidney Cure cured his kidney disease after others failed. He reports being bedridden and unable to stand straight before using the remedy.
Elizabeth Farnham a 15 year old from Minong Wisconsin left home two weeks ago in brother in law Otis Gaselin's company. She traveled toward St Paul disguising as a boy and was found in Wyoming Minnesota exhausted and hungry. She planned to work and hoped to reach relatives in St Paul before authorities intervened.
Utica April 28 The home rule democracy declares war on New York bosses Murphy and Conners with a plan to topple Tammany and Erie county chiefs. A provisional 11 member committee led by William G. Rice will form a 61 member statewide body to organize the party and press for a state convention in June and a fight at the Denver national convention. An address at Carnegie Hall alleging despotic actions by Murphy and Conners is cited as catalyst.
Articles of incorporation filed show Stillwater Power and Railway company will build an electric railroad from Billings to Cooke City via Columbus with branches to Yellowstone Sweet Grass Carbon and Park counties. Capital stock listed at 3 million dollars. Judge Carland will depart for Mankato Minnesota to preside a district term. Breckenridge Commercial club names officers for the year J C Kain president M Edwards vice president G W Burrows secretary J H Ehlert treasurer.
Securities valued about $5,000 stolen from S Swennumson of Park River were recovered by North Dakota authorities. Found in trees along the Red River in East Grand Forks, the grip contained mortgages receipts policies and letters. Robbers had taken valuables and mounted at the Great Northern depot, leaving damaged belongings including $300 worth of irrelevant items.
In Mitchell South Dakota on April 28 the Woonsocket alcohol question faces a court challenge. The license measure won by one vote but the law lacks a voter count method, while a circuit court ruling says a majority must come from the highest vote total not in favor of license.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debating Society of La Crosse High School adopted resolutions expressing heartfelt sympathy and appreciation for the life and character of Alfred A. Zimmer, honorary member and teacher, and ordered the resolutions spread on minutes and sent to his family.
Mr Walter McArthur of Pine Creek Valley topped today’s market with a fine hog bunch selling to Mr Ernest Fritz for 5.50 dollars. McArthur, a well known La Crosse trader, led a brisk sale of livestock in the city.
A gasoline heater exploded at the Hawley steam laundry causing a fire that consumed the building. Only one young girl was inside at the time, and the flames quickly gained control of the site.
How to avoid appendicitis suggests most victims are constipated. Orino Laxative Fruit Syrup cures chronic constipation by stimulating the liver and bowels and restoring natural action. It does not nauseate or gripe and is mild and pleasant to take. Refuse substitutes. O. T. Erhart.
Lincoln Beachey, the Toledo aviator, celebrates a 2000 prize for his dirigible balloon in St Louis. A girl asks how he felt, and he compares his excitement to his Toledo friend John Humphreys when a baby is born. The doctor reports a 12 pound birth and humor ensues.
A captioned exchange from the Denver Catholic Register shows a patient asking about a warm climate and a doctor responding that the warm climate is exactly what he is trying to save the patient from.
Chicago traders observed hogs recoupting most of prior losses in a strong steady market while cattle held firm and sheep weakened. Cattle receipts reached 2,000 head and hogs 12,000 as prices for hogs ranged from 5.15 to 5.65 per cwt with heavy weights at 5.30 to 5.65 and sheep showing notable declines. Market data from Chicago and Minneapolis futures followed with wheat corn oats and pork pricing in May and July contracts.
The market strength seen yesterday in Union Pacific and St Paul broadened today with gains in several major railroad issues in early trading. Union Pacific rose over one percent, St Paul up about 2 percent, and Reading up about a point, while Hill stocks were bought aggressively. Industrials and specialties slumped amid overall weakness in the sector. Government bonds held steady.
Broomhall notes quiet opening in wheat with higher initial values yet a later slide as offerings grow. The decline stems from free liquidation and expectations of heavy May deliveries, plus reports of Europe reselling purchases and cargoes. Corn stays steady on fair spot demand. A. O. Slaughter and local crowd among July wheat sellers at the open.
Hamlin Garland visited his father in West Salem Thursday and Friday. Friends and relatives from St Charles Beloit Sparta Green Lake Mindoro La Crosse Burr Oak La Crosse gathered for visits and concerts. A WBU baseball game was postponed to May 9 due to weather, disappointing local sports fans awaiting the diamond improvement.
Markets show little movement as cold spell nears. Oranges inch down to $2.50 to $2.65 box. lemons $3.00 to $3.25. pineapples $3.00 to $5.00 per crate. cocoa huts rise to $5.00. Readouts list dozens of crops and live stock priced by vendors including N Y Apples, oranges navels, cabbages, strawberries, and dairy grades. The note warns frost could threaten blossoms if cold persists.
Funeral directors in Blue Earth county announce a new burial fee of 25 dollars, up from 14, with no county action yet on advance payments. The notice was served to the county board and dated April 28 in Mankato Minnesota.
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